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MIDI System Exclusive Data

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A collection of MIDI System Exclusive data for older synthesizers, among them Korg M1 , Roland D‐50 and Yamaha DX7 .

Public Data at Google Drive

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The root directories of some of the public data at my Google Drive account: Music Pictures Text

High‐Resolution Digital Audio

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Here you will find links to various articles pertaining to the (hopefully obvious) merits of using more than 16 bits/​44.1 kHz for digital audio. This page is somewhat superfluous, since anyone without a major hearing loss should be able to hear the difference. CD audio exhibits, among other things, exaggerated upper mids, harsh highs and a general lack of depth and fullness compared to higher resolution audio. Unfortunately, there are people out there who lack the proper references and audio equipment, and who tend to think that even compressed digital audio formats like MP3, Vorbis and AAC sound “good”. They don’t know what they’re missing . . . An article that explains in a very comprehensible way why you should use 24 (or more) bits per sample for digital audio. From personal experience, when recording guitar, the difference between using 16 and 24 bits is striking, particularly in the lower frequencies (once again). An interview with Morten Lindberg , the founder of the N

QSL.net

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” QSL.net is dedicated to the sole purpose of furthering the abilities and interest of the Amateur Radio Community. If you are a licensed Amateur Radio Operator you are invited to reserve your free space on this server. Sign Up and you will receive a free @qsl.net e-mail address that forwards to your existing e-mail account, along with free web server space to either move your homepage to this server, mirror your existing one, or lose all those excuses and finally START one.”

Old Alfred

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Alfred E. Neuman has grown old...

U+2010 HYPHEN becomes U+005F LOW LINE in Google Chrome and Android 10

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For some reason, in Google Chrome and Android 10, the U+2010 HYPHEN character will be replaced with a U+005F LOW LINE character when the font-family property is defined in the CSS of a HTML page, and the generic system serif font is used. This won’t happen when there is no font-family property defined, in which case the generic system serif font will be used as well. For reference, here is a simple test page .